„Zwrot archiwalny” w literaturoznawstwie polskim – teoria, praktyka, perspektywy
The “Archival Turn” in Polish Literary Studies – Theory, Practice, Perspectives

Author(s): Helena Markowska-Fulara
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: archives; turn; philology; Actor-Network Theory; Derrida
Summary/Abstract: In the last few decades the turns in humanities were announced so often that Danuta Ulicka, while presenting her project of literary studies, uses the phrase “archival turn” some what ironically and distances herself from the will to establish a new methodology. However, the fact is that the commentaries to her proposition picked up the new name and completed the act of creation of the new methodological perspective. The paper attempts to answer the question of how to understand the “archival” practice of the literary scholar. It is considered in the context of – firstly – different meanings of the term “archives” in the Polish and international discourse and – secondly – of those practices of Polish literary studies which can be recognized as the realization of concepts marked by the “archival turn.” As a consequence, three main forms of reflection developed within the frame work of the analyzed methodological approach are indicated: theoretical diagnosis regarding theidea of “archives,” studies concentrated on archives as an institution and projects beginning with archival research and culminating with the “revealing” of the document. The analysisof Ulicka’s proposition and related opinions also enables the author to characterize thespecific philosophy of philology which accompanies the turn towards the archives.

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